What kind of plant is thistle? What are the main values and functions?

There are two kinds of thistles, one is Cirsium japonicum and the other is Cirsium japonicum. It is a plant of Cirsium in Compositae, which generally lives in wasteland, grassland, hillside forest, roadside, shrub, field, forest edge and stream.

Cirsium japonicum and Cirsium japonicum belong to the aerial parts of Cirsium japonicum in Compositae. Their morphological characteristics are different, and their efficacy and indications are similar but different.

1. The morphological characteristics are different: Cirsium japonicum is a perennial herb with a spindle-shaped root and a long rhizome.

2. Different functions: Both Cirsium japonicum and Cirsium japonicum have the functions of cooling blood and stopping bleeding (cooling blood and stopping bleeding), removing blood stasis, detoxicating and eliminating carbuncle, but the former has a stronger effect of detoxification and detumescence, while Cirsium japonicum focuses on stopping bleeding.

3. Different indications: Cirsium japonicum is mainly used to treat hematemesis, hemoptysis, metrorrhagia (excessive menstrual flow or endless dripping) caused by blood heat, and it can also be used to treat carbuncle, swelling, sore and other toxic carbuncle (carbuncle occurs in intestinal fu-organs, showing fever, right abdominal pain and palpable mass) and lung carbuncle.

Cirsium japonicum pays more attention to hemostasis and has a certain diuretic effect. Therefore, in addition to hematemesis, metrorrhagia and traumatic bleeding, it can also be used to treat hematuria, bloody stranguria (hematuria with pain) and hematochezia.

Patients should use Cirsium japonicum and Cirsium japonicum under the guidance of differentiation of symptoms and signs of professional Chinese medicine, and should not blindly use their own drugs to avoid ineffective treatment and delay their illness.

Picture: What does thistle look like?

Picture: What a thistle looks like.